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[Jonathan S. Fox]

In celebration of the fact that you can now choose from several different starting scenarios, including a classic mode with no enemy crime squad, the version number has been advanced to 4.0. Well, that and I just really wanted the version number to start with a 4 for once.

Windows download (including 4.00.1 - 4.00.5a fixes):
http://www.jonathansfox.com/lcs/lcs_win32_4005a.zip

The source code for 4.00.5a should compile on OS X and Linux. You can check out the latest build from SVN using this address:

https://lcsgame.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lcsgame/trunk/

The file sitemaps.txt must be converted to Unix line endings prior to being usable, however.

Version 4.00.5a

-Corrected the bonus for the high school dropout founder by properly giving +1 charisma.

Version 4.00.5

-Replaced the "Massive Conservative Response" text with more discriptive, enemy-specific text. Replaced the "imminent" warning with "Evacuating Area" to explain the lack of encounters after the response arrives.
-Made encounters stop spawning when massive conservative response occurs. Yes, you can clean out the building at that point. You just have to get past the siege units by the front door on your way out.
-Made SWAT teams be the default massive conservative response to most sites, instead of gang units or street cops. Death squads will still respond in place of SWAT teams, if available.
-Fixed bug where raiding SWAT teams would mysteriously vanish when you walked into their tile, instead of attacking you.
-Fixed profile display bug for androgenous characters wanted for crimes who were born in months with long names.
-Fixed display bug with abortion news stories.
-Fixed a minor bug with police attempting to arrest people spraying graffiti.
-Fixed freeze bug with hitting corpses for whom all of their body parts have been blown apart.

-Gave extra starting skills for college student founders and changed their starting cash:

+2 Computers
+2 Science
+2 Teaching
+2 Writing
+1 Business
+1 Law
+$500 (one month rent, down from $650)

Also note that the Professional Thief's downtown apartment is $300/month cheaper than the downtown apartments normally are. The College Student's university apartment is $150/month cheaper than standard university apartments. The tenement for the political activist is standard price. Additionally, the first month for all of these is free.

Version 4.00.4a

-Fixed crash bug when you kill a police officer during a street arrest (selling brownies, burying corpses, wanted...).

Version 4.00.4

-Made flag burning based on pure free speech (it's not a violent act, and political violence shouldn't be tied to issues).
-Made sleepers not get whiny and quit spreading the good word after disband.
-Made sleepers have 100% effectiveness during disband. Just to make your life easier. And also to fix the aforementioned problem where they'd get whiny and quit.
-Fixed bug that would arrest sleeper lawyers that fail their check to defend you pro bono.
-Fixed bug where crack houses weren't upgradable.
-Fixed bug with the display of the opening screen.
-Fixed bug where only the founder would age on disband.
-Fixed bug where game would hang on victory/defeat.
-Hopefully got Linux/OSX compiling working again.

-Expanded the effects of the final question in character generation:

Choice A (professional thief)
+Starts in downtown apartment
+$1200 (one month rent)

Choice B (gang member)
+Starts in crack house (works like an extra warehouse)
+Starts with a crew of four armed gang members
+Starts with 10 days of rations in the crack house

Choice C (college student)
+Starts in university district apartment
+$650 (one month rent)

Choice D (high school dropout)
+Starts in homeless shelter
+1 to all stats except Wisdom

Choice E (political activist)
+Starts in industrial tenement
+$200 (one month rent)
+50 starting juice

Version 4.00.3

-Fixed [red water] text bug.
-Maybe fixed the infinite CCS siege bug.

Version 4.00.2a

-The starting lawyer is no longer a cop instead of a lawyer. Oops.

Version 4.00.2

-Added Capital Fish's enormous name lists to the name generator.
-Added Psychologist character.
-Greatly reduced the likelihood that site uniques will appear in unsecure areas.
-Fixed bug with occasional blank issue text.
-Fixed bug with broken police station lockup.
-Fixed display issue with sleeper activation.
-Fixed a minor issue with starting skills.
-Fixed bug with date-napping renaming characters and ignoring gender.
-Fixed bug where sleepers stealing equipment could be caught using the old code.
-Fixed bug where the starting lawyer was staying at the apartment instead of the courthouse.
-Fixed bug where degenerate items were being handed out by police sleepers set to steal equipment.

Version 4.00.1

-Made two bouncers at the front door of the club.
-Added CCS Vigilante door guards to the front of the Bar & Grill. They never let you in... unless you have a sleeper.
-Added flavor text for when you beat the CCS safe houses, to remove guesswork.
-Fixed bug with certain maps not loading the correct map, and crack houses crashing.
-Fixed bug where police wouldn't find your people when raiding a safehouse.
-Fixed bug with a blank newspaper story.
-Fixed bug with infiltration levels being 100% or 0% most of the time.

Version 4.00

A very abridged list of features:

- You can see the heat and secrecy levels of your safehouses. The math behind these are more simple and easier to intuit from playing.
- You can see the infiltration level of your sleepers precisely. This is the percent chance that any sleeper action will succeed. Too many failures, and the sleeper will quit being a sleeper or be arrested.
- Sleeper lawyers are no longer guaranteed to be available, unless the person on trial is their lover. They now serve for free, however. Judges, lawyers, and other specials all roll on their infiltration here, so a more difficult brainwashed conservative lawyer will be more consistently available than an easy seduced liberal one.
- You can set up changes the starting scenario using a couple of options.
- Club security is now more heavily armed.
- You can see the most critical thing a character is wanted for on their full profile.
- Juice gains are doubled across the board.
- Certain recruits may come with a criminal record.
- Various other changes that hopefully will make the game more fun.

As always, you can reply to this thread to share any bugs in the new release, or just to discuss new features.

[Virroken]

Starting a game in conservative hell. Here we go!

[Skeeblix]

YES! YES! YES! 

[Think0028]

YEEEEEEEES downloading now.

[kotor39]

how do we view heat

[Jonathan S. Fox]

You should be able to see it alongside any safe house you control in the go forth screen.

[kotor39]

lol i feel stupid, and lucky, first time i checked curses in 3 weeks

[Skeeblix]

:O no more stealth actions!?

[kotor39]

is there a full list of changes somewhere

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I cut stealth actions because as interesting as they were as an idea, the implementation I gave for them wasn't working well. They were rarely stealthy and it was unclear what the difference was most of the time.

There is no full list of changes, unfortunately. As often happens when development drags on for months, I can't remember the full list of changes and don't have a list of them. Sometimes I'll go through and compare the game's source code line by line to construct a comprehensive list, but as you can imagine, that takes a lot of patience and time to do.

[kotor39]

ok, thank you. are there any new actions or did you just focus on the campaign and more inner mechanics part

[Jonathan S. Fox]

If anything there are probably less actions, due to the removal of the ability of sleepers to advocate Conservatism. This is because sleepers no longer have variable infiltration, so it is better to just let them lay low if you want to keep them out of trouble.

[Megaman]

congradualations! you have made my day!
bug:the game somtimes seems to freeze and it forces me to savecum in order to prevent progress being lost.

[Aqizzar]

Huzzah!  It's here!  At last, my burning need for Liberalism can be quenched again!

However, one thing has already marred the awesomeness.  Game freezes when I try to go to any Crackhouse.  Just posts the "You have arrived at blah blah blah" text line over the main menu and then goes completely unresponsive except for closing the window.  Only seems to happen with Crackhouses.

[Zangi]

Huzzah!  It's here!  At last, my burning need for Liberalism can be quenched again!

However, one thing has already marred the awesomeness.  Game freezes when I try to go to any Crackhouse.  Just posts the "You have arrived at blah blah blah" text line over the main menu and then goes completely unresponsive except for closing the window.  Only seems to happen with Crackhouses.

Yup...